GQ Passes Over Real Heroes in Order to Name Colin Kaepernick Citizen of the Year

By now you’ve likely heard of the men’s fashion magazine, GQ, naming 49er’s NFL player turned political activist Colin Kaepernick as the “citizen of the year.”

GQ’s article on the matter features it and various other people fawning over the man who first knelt during the national anthem in protest of racial inequality. This kickstarted a string of players kneeling for all sorts of different causes, be it racism, Trump, or even the debunked gender wage gap.

Kaepernick’s stunt has thus far been a complete failure. No amount of kneeling has changed anything in society except headline titles, and a steep decline in viewership for the NFL. Kaepernick has accomplished nothing but further division.

Yet GQ and the left believe Kaepernick is heroic enough to earn the title of citizen of the year. This includes noted Women’s March co-founder and noted pro-Sharia Law “feminist” Linda Sarsour.

If the woman who believes women that don’t agree with an agenda that believes they should suffer physical harm for disobeying a strict code of backward theocratic rules calls you a hero, then you’re not a hero. Simple as that.

What about the people who took steps to make sure people caught in the Las Vegas shooting got the help they needed? Do they not get a shout out?

2017 is stuffed to the brim with heroic moments, so why is the left holding up people who have done little to make a real difference as heroes instead of 2017’s long list to choose from? For them, it seems an adherence to social justice ideas is more of a reason to celebrate someone than actually changing communities for the better.

Kaepernick is, despite GQ’s glowing description, not anywhere close to being the citizen of the year. Kaepernick is a destructive force, driving wedges between Americans, and ruining something that brought people from all walks of life together. GQ is celebrating a man who has only added to the societal corrosion.